From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: multiqueue interrupts... Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:15:27 -0600 Message-ID: <20080919211527.GC13084@parisc-linux.org> References: <41b516cb0809191050t6c9783dele8926f697854bb1@mail.gmail.com> <20080919181840.GE30956@parisc-linux.org> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F520632FB45@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080919.140922.131706817.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org, brice@myri.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:41413 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbYISVPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:15:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080919.140922.131706817.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:09:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Let irqbalanced implement the policy. Just configure as many > queues as possible and let it figure out what to do. That isn't a great idea. Some cards consume a significant amount of resources per queue and the cost of each queue may be larger than the benefit. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."